City Directories and History: This structure appears as a brick commercial duplex on the 1912 Sanborn Maps of Winnsboro. Listed as #207, next to #209, these buildings housed a dry goods store.
In the next few buildings to the south of the Davis building was Mose and Frank Normans’ dry goods business. Next door south of the Herald Independent building stood the two story barbershop of Logan Brown at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. After the automobile became the means of transportation in the early part of the Twentieth Century, the many livery stables for horses and carriages began to close. J. Shaw Ketchin transformed this business into hardware and building supplies. It was known as Ketchin Mercantile Company and existed here until the early 1990’s. [Information provided by J.M. Lyles]
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